{"conversationCode":"154-004","tapeNumber":154,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-154-004","startDateTime":"1972-09-23T21:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-09-23T21:32:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Sep-1972","startTime":"5:10 PM","endDate":"23-Sep-1972","endTime":"5:32 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Camp David Operator;","description":"On September 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 5:10 pm and 5:32 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 154-004 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"CDST","recordingDevice":"Camp David Study Table","latitudeEstimated":39.648333,"longitudeEstimated":-77.465,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 154-4\n\nDate: September 23, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:32 pm\nLocation: Camp David Study Table\n\nThe Camp David operator talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation no. 213-8]\n\n            Charles W. Colson","filename":["154-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Camp David Operator"],"prevCode":"154-003","nextCode":"154-005","transcript":[{"start":1.26,"end":2.27,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":2.49,"end":6.39,"text":"Yes sir, on your call to Mr. Coulson, we're paging him right now, trying to locate him."},{"start":6.89,"end":7.71,"text":"Oh, well that's all right."},{"start":7.89,"end":8.56,"text":"You can call me back."},{"start":8.62,"end":10.24,"text":"Very good, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon communicated with the Camp David operator to initiate an urgent telephone call to Charles W. Colson. When the operator reported that Colson could not be immediately located, the President opted to abandon the attempt and instructed the operator to call him back later. No substantive policy matters were addressed during this brief administrative exchange regarding the logistics of reaching a staff member.","topics":["Charles Colson","White House communications","Presidential logistics","staff contact"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T09:00:48.452Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-colson","white-house-communications","presidential-logistics","staff-contact"],"audioDurationSec":14,"audioFiles":[{"file":"154-004.mp3","bytes":340426,"durationSec":14.11,"bitrate":193058,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:33.323Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/154-004.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/154-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/154/conversation-154-004","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}